Informed citizens and efficient mechanisms to prevent and fight corruption Context Facts and Figures Successful prevention and fight against corruption Beneficiaries is multifaceted, and besides involving a robust BiH citizens and Anti-corruption judiciary, comprehensive legislative framework, and efficient co-operation and co-ordination in its Bodies in the Federation of BiH implementation, it also involves the citizens, for they (FBiH), Republika Srpska, cantons are the ones who can seek accountability from in FBiH and Brčko District public institutions and identify and sanction cases of corruption. In addition, the effective fight against Project duration corruption requires efficient anti-corruption bodies March 2021 – March 2024 and it is thus necessary to equip them with appropriate technology and increase their skills in Budget using it. The Project is complementary to other USD 1,018,012.00 (868,364.24 EUR) Mission’s activities on addressing challenges and gaps in the anti-corruption system, such as the development and promotion of anti-corruption Funded by legislative framework or regulation of systems for US Bureau of International asset declarations of public officials. Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Project Objective Implemented by OSCE Mission to BiH To support BiH’s efforts in diminishing corruption by raising awareness of the Project Manager consequences of corruption for BiH citizens Ms Ljiljana Perkušić and strengthening the capacity of anti- ljiljana.perkusic@osce.org corruption bodies in corruption prevention.
Main activities Establishing a comprehensive baseline on BiH Educating young people about the benefits of good citizens’ understanding of corruption and governance, in particular transparency and related response mechanisms by conducting a accountability, and equipping them with the country-wide public survey; knowledge that can have a significant impact on future grassroots corruption prevention, Implementing a comprehensive awareness- raising campaign that will encourage BiH Building the technical capacity of anti-corruption citizens to not engage in corruption-related bodies to strengthen the country’s preventive behavior, including by addressing and/or aspect of the fight against corruption and enable utilizing the main findings of the public survey them to intensify their public outreach efforts and (e.g., increasing their knowledge on what effective public communication. corruption is, how to address and/or report it);